220 Moral Quotes to Inspire and Uplift Your Life

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Famous Moral Quotes

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. — Charles Darwin

Morals are private. Decency is public. — Rita Mae Brown

Good morals lead to good laws. — Chuck Norris

What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway

Morality is a private and costly luxury. - Henry Adams

Morality is a private and costly luxury. — Henry Adams

Moral principle is the foundation of law. — Ronald Dworkin

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence. — Ben Harper

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. — Thomas Hardy

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity. — James Dobson

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. - Isaac Asimov

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. — Isaac Asimov

Healing is a moral thing to do. — Jay Inslee

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. — Leon Blum

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. — Lewis Carroll

Short Moral Quotes

  • The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. — Mahatma Gandhi
  • Do the right thing because it is right. — Immanuel Kant
  • The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. — Aldous Huxley
  • The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. — Saint Augustine
  • How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue! — A. A. Milne
  • Bad company ruins good morals. — Bible
  • Bad company ruins good morals. — Paul the Apostle
  • The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis. — Edmund Burke
  • Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — C. S. Lewis
  • When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim

Moral Image Quotes

The most powerful moral influence is example. - Huston Smith quote

The most powerful moral influence is example. — Huston Smith

Optimism is the true moral courage - Ernest Shackleton quote

Optimism is the true moral courage — Ernest Shackleton

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. - Laurence Sterne quote

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. — Laurence Sterne

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. - George C. Marshall quote

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. — George C. Marshall

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy. - Jaggi Vasudev quote

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy. — Jaggi Vasudev

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. - Christopher Hitchens quote

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. — Christopher Hitchens

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely. - Cheikh Anta Diop quote

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely. — Cheikh Anta Diop

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. - Sigmund Freud quote

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. — Sigmund Freud

Without Virtue there can be no liberty - Benjamin Rush quote

Without Virtue there can be no liberty — Benjamin Rush

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. - H. L. Mencken quote

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. — H. L. Mencken

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid - Robert Liparulo quote

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid — Robert Liparulo

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. - W. C. Fields quote

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. — W. C. Fields

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. - Alexis de Tocqueville quote

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville

Moral quote Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self r
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.

Life Moral Quotes

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. — Shimon Peres

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Improve the World Through Music. — Plato

Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap. — Jhene Aiko

Moral quote A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. — Frederic Bastiat

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine. — Jaggi Vasudev

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim

Moral quote Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality — Antonio Gramsci

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society. — Paul Tillich

Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to. — Emile Durkheim

To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love. — Cesar Millan

Friendship Moral Quotes

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish. — Aristotle

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. — Bill Watterson

Moral quote Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane. — Charlie Chaplin

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art . — George Santayana

Moral quote Bad company ruins good morals.
Bad company ruins good morals.

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people. — Sai Baba

Since the foundation of the State of Israel, the United States has stood by her and helped her to pursue security, peace, and economic growth. Our friendship is based on historic moral and strategic ties, as well as our shared dedication to democracy. — Ronald Reagan

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations. — Dr. James Dobson

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. — Thomas Aquinas

Moral Life Quotes

The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion. — Bill Nye

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape. — Oriana Fallaci

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. — Benjamin Rush

Moral quote The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

In my mind, there are few sins so egregious as extending life without health. This is important. It does not matter if we can extend lifespans if we cannot extend healthspans to an equal extent. And so if we’re going to do the former, we have an absolute moral obligation to do the latter. — David Sinclair

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. — Edward George BulwerLytton

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere. — Bill Vaughan

Moral quote I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We say Bitcoin is hope. Bitcoin fixes everything…that certainly was the case with our stock...it imbued life into the company...morale was dramatically boosted. We just had the best first quarter we’ve had in a decade. — Michael Saylor

When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live? — Annie Besant

When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God. — Fred Bear

Moral Law Quotes

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws. — Thurgood Marshall

Moral quote Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State. — Harry S. Truman

There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes. — John Dewey

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. - Immanuel Kant

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant

Moral quote I'd say a man is someone who is strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human beeing.
I'd say a man is someone who is strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human beeing.

What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them? — Socrates

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral. — Catharine Beecher

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Moral Society Quotes

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history. — J. Edgar Hoover

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society]. — Elie Wiesel

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Quincy Adams

The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). — Robert Hooke

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. — Theodore Roosevelt

You can’t have a moral society without sound money. — Robert Breedlove

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals. — Mark Twain

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society. — Aga Khan IV

Moral Ethics Quotes

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other. — Starhawk

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. — Robert Noyce

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide. — Eric Clapton

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. — Howard Cosell

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. — Stephen King

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective. — Samora Machel

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. — A.J. Ayer

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house. — Audre Lorde

Moral Values Quotes

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values. — David Ben-Gurion

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. — Robert Kiyosaki

Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me. — Lenny Bruce

Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity. — Vida Goldstein

Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will. — Berry Gordy

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever. — Simone Weil

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. — H. L. Mencken

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. — Thomas Sowell

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. — Sivananda

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values. — Whitney M. Young

Moral Responsibility Quotes

The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority. — W. Edwards Deming

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. — Alvin Toffler

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. — Robert A. Heinlein

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. — Robert A. Heinlein

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution. — Annie Besant

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship. — Voltairine de Cleyre

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness. — William Henry Harrison

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found. — Tim McIlrath

Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens. — Charles Derber

Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. — Sarah Vowell

Moral Principles Quotes

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. — Fulton J. Sheen

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments. — James Madison

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. — George Washington

If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day. — George Whitefield

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles. — Peter Kreeft

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality. — Thomas Sowell

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment. — Maxine Hong Kingston

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group. — Lawrence Kohlberg

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. — Ayn Rand

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. — Anna Brownell Jameson

Good Moral Quotes

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. — John Stuart Mill

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. — Will Rogers

If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God. — David Hume

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. — Mikhail Bakunin

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. — Dennis Prager

Doing good deeds, it's not about the attention or anything. I just think it's the right thing to do. — MrBeast

People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high; being self-righteous and morally superior feels good. — Mark Manson

I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the essence of good citizenship. It is too easy to say that a good shot is automatically a good man, but it would be equally incorrect to ignore the connection. — Jeff Cooper

Moral Aspect Quotes

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. — Elizabeth Blackwell

I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier. — Curtis LeMay

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution. — Christopher Dawson

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect. — Clara Zetkin

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story. — Terry Goodkind

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character. — Corin Nemec

Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers. — Benjamin Spock

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. — Henry A. Wallace

We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness. — Thomas Carlyle

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues. — Robert M. Hutchins

Moral Education Quotes

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education. — Charlotte Mason

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. — Woody Allen

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys. — Christina Hoff Sommers

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. — Desmond Tutu

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations. — Margaret E. Knight

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. — Desmond Tutu

The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material — Sri Aurobindo

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. — Gouverneur Morris

Moral Philosophy Quotes

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. — Peter Kreeft

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. — Ludwig Feuerbach

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man. — Douglas MacArthur

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. — Mark Twain

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. — Karl Jaspers

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue. — Francis Bacon

Moral Issues Quotes

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment. — Massimo Vignelli

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. — Fulton J. Sheen

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. — George C. Marshall

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. — Pope Benedict XVI

Medical ethics is a fascinating discipline, as it deals with issues replete with complex philosophical, moral, and ethical considerations that are rarely black or white. — Gad Saad

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated. — John F. Kennedy

I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue. — Bernie Sanders

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong. — Theodore Roosevelt

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue. — James Hansen

I should be able to express moral views on social issues without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach ‘tolerance’ that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square. — Kirk Cameron

Moral Action Quotes

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character. — Charles Grandison Finney

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. — Ludwig von Mises

It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good — Greek Proverbs

Morality and ethics automatically emerge when we realize the long term consequences of our actions. — Naval Ravikant

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme. — Nikolai Berdyaev

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. — Sylvester Stallone

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. — Albert Einstein

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung — Abraham Lincoln

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels. — Robert Ardrey

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Read quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche
quotes on god, love and morality

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Read quotes by Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin
quotes on change, evolution and natural selection

365 3940
Read quotes by Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown
quotes on language

228 1756
Read quotes by Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris
quotes on bruce lee, life

53 651
Read quotes by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway
quotes on love, writing and war

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Read quotes by Henry Adams

Henry Adams
quotes on teachers

218 1269

More Moral Quotes

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little. — Bernie Sanders

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it. — John Lewis

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. — Otto von Bismarck

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God. — Ravi Zacharias

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things? — Antonin Scalia

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change. — Robert Kennedy

Sportsmanship... what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church! — Stone Cold Steve Austin

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws. — Noah Webster

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian. — Bhagat Singh

In Conclusion

These quotes about moral often highlight the universal nature of ethics, emphasizing the need for empathy and kindness. They remind us that our actions have consequences and that we should strive to do what is just and honorable. Moral quotes encourage us to reflect on our own behavior and to consider the impact we have on others. They remind us of the importance of leading a principled life and making choices that contribute positively to the well-being of society as a whole.

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